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A work, entitled Provisional Landscape, by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is on display at the Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne (KKL), Switzerland. The artwork is presented in an exhibition, entittled Shanshui - Poesie ohne Worte (Shanshui - Poetry without Words) that features contemporary Chinese Art and opens to the public on 21 May. EPA/URS FLUEELER.
LUUCERNE.- Kunstmuseum Lucerne presents Shanshui - Poetry without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art - Works from Sigg Collection, on view from May 21st through October 2, 2011. The exhibition is curated by Ai Weiwei, Peter Fischer and Uli Sigg. The Museum of Art Lucerne is the ideal place for this exhibition. Over the years, and as the "home museum" of Canton Lucerne based collectors Uli and Rita Sigg, it has regularly included individual Chinese artists in its exhibitions. "Shanshui painting is not a window for the viewer's eye, but an object for his mind." (Han Cho, Chinese Painter, Early 12th Century) "Every landscape is a state of mind." (Henri Frédéric Amiel, Swiss Philosopher, 1821–1881) ... More |
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Malmo Konsthall Stages Exhibition of Painter, Sculptor and Filmmaker Poul Gernes
Poul Gernes, Untitled (Target), 1966-1968 (detail). Enamel on masonite, 122 x 122 cm. Private collection, Copenhagen © Estate of Poul Gernes. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
MALMO, SWEDEN.- The painter, sculptor and filmmaker Poul Gernes (1925-1996) is considered a modern classic and numbers among the most influential of Scandinavian artists. He constantly sought to link art to life by means of colour and design. In the 50 years Poul Gernes was active he had numerous exhibitions and he shaped the face of more than 150 buildings in Denmark. He left behind an impressive ›uvre, which is fascinating on account of its extraordinary complexity. Malmö Konsthall and Lunds konsthall are staging a dual exhibition that provide a comprehensive insight into his art. The exhibition, on view from May 21 through August 21 2011, sheds clear light on the important stages in Gernes’ develop- ... More | | Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence at Nassau County Museum of Art
Bob Dylan, singer, New York City, February 10, 1965 by Richard Avedon.
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence, on view at Nassau County Museum of Art from May 21, 2011 through September 4, 2011, showcases more than 50 photographs by the legendary artist. The exhibition celebrates Avedon’s storied career in which he embraced the worlds of both magazine and museum, pioneering a vision of photography as a two-sided mirror that reflects both the subject and the photographer. Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence was organized by the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona with the cooperation of The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York. The installation of the exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art will run alongside a presentation of fashion and photography in film. Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was one of the great image-makers ... More | | Masterworks of the Venetian Renaissance Presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Veronese, Mars, Venus and Cupid, c. 1580. Oil on canvas. Purchased by the Royal Institution 1859; transferred to the National Gallery of Scotland 186.
HOUSTON, TX.- Starting today, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), in conjunction with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will present 25 masterworks of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance: Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (1556–1559). The two paintings have never before traveled to the United States. The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto from the collection of the National Galleries. The MFAH’s presentation of Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of S ... More |
Moderna Museet Malmo Presents Colombian Artist Doris Salcedo with "Plegaria Muda"
Doris Salcedo, Plegaria Muda. Photographer: Jason Mandella, 2008-2010© Doris Salcedo.
MALMO, SWEDEN.- Doris Salcedo is one of the foremost sculptors of our time and Moderna Museet Malmö presents her first solo exhibition in Scandinavia. She exhibits a completely new work, comprising 69 sculptural units. Under the title, Plegaria Muda, these individual units fill up the entire Turbine hall with an, at times elusive, at times penetrating presence. The exhibition is on view until September 4, 2011. The work of Doris Salcedo has engaged people all over the world. Like few other artists, she has succeeded in providing visual language to abstract feelings of traumatic loss and suppressed grief. A pair of shoes from a missing person, or ordinary household furniture – such as a chair, a table or a bed – have, by her hand, been transformed into alternative memorials, impregnated with emotions of painful absence, while encapsulating a traumatic loss of human life. In recent years, Doris Salcedo has been in ... More | | International Center of Photography Celebrates Elliott Erwitt's Career with Exhibition
Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1955 © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos.
NEW YORK, NY.- An eyewitness to history and a dreamer with a camera, Elliott Erwitt has made some of the most memorable photographs of the twentieth century. A substantial retrospective exhibition of his work, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, is on view at the International Center of Photography from May 20 to August 28, 2011. The exhibition includes more than 100 of Erwitt’s favorite images, a selection of his documentary films produced over the past sixty years, as well as some previously unseen and unpublished prints from his early work. Born Elio Romano Erwitz to Russian Jewish émigrés in Paris in 1928, Erwitt spent his childhood in Italy, returned to France in 1938, and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1939. After moving to Los Angeles in 1941, Erwitt attended Hollywood High School and began working in a commercial darkroom processing photographs of movie stars. He studied filmmaking at the New School for ... More | | Following a Period of Study, Bellini Painting Goes on View at the Frick Collection
Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in the Desert, c. 1480 (detail). Oil on poplar panel, 49 x 55 ⅞ inches. The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Michael Bodycomb.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert, a hallmark of The Frick Collection and one of the most important Italian Renaissance paintings in America, is a moving, spiritual portrait of a central figure in western Christianity. It is also a profoundly mysterious work, whose beauty depths of detail are matched only by the enigma of the artist’s intentions. This spring, following a period of unprecedented study, the painting is the subject of a special exhibition, In a New Light: Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert. Running from May 22 through August 28, the dossier presentation places the painting in the sky lit Oval Room for a rare viewing opportunity outside of its traditional location in the mansion’s Living Hall. The exhibition also marks the debut of a Multimedia Room at the Frick. This new educational space, just steps away from the Oval Room ... More |
Stephen Haller Gallery Presents New Work by RISD Graduate Lloyd Martin: Interstices
Lloyd Martin, Trek, 2011, Oil, mixed media on canvas, 56 x 60 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery presents Lloyd Martin: Interstices, on view from May 19th through June 25th, 2011. In this new body of work Lloyd Martin confronts the spaces, gaps, breaks, and fissures that intervene between time and space. There is an intensely rhythmic, almost musical quality to his painting, a kind of pulsing beat. There is also a distinctly architectural element, an inherent framework that grounds the structure and holds together disparate elements. In this series Martin continues his exploration of the transformative nature of time and use - the decay as well as revitalization of the urban landscape around his studio. This atmosphere inspires Martin in the creation of these rhythmically constructed abstract paintings. Martin writes: These paintings continue to explore my ideas about staged “painting events”. Based on observations of architecture and nature’s intervention ... More | | First Major Exhibition in the United States to Explore the Work of Paul Thek at the Hammer Museum
Untitled (Hand with Ring), 1967. Wood, plaster, paint and metal. 7 5/16 x 4 ½ x 4 ½ in. (18.5 x 11.5 x 11.5 cm). Collection of Ed Burns; on long-term loan to the Watermill Center. ©The Estate of George Paul Thek; courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This summer the Hammer Museum presents a retrospective of work by legendary American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). On view May 22 through August 28, 2011, Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective, is the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the work of this sculptor,painter, and creator of radical installations, and the first major exhibition of this artist’s work to be presented on the west coast. Many of the approximately 130 objects, which include paintings, drawings, and sculpture, have not been seen in the U.S. in the decades since they were made; while others have never been seen here at all. Several of Thek’s “meat pieces” will be shown, along with rare works such as Untitled (Dwarf Parade Table), never before seen in this ... More | | New York State Museum Scientist, Dr. Roland Kays, Co-Authors Study on Wolves, Coyotes
File photo of Wolves strolling inside their new enclosure at an animal park. EPA/FRISOGENTSCH.
ALBANY, NY.- A State Museum scientist has co-authored a new research article, representing the most detailed genomic study of its kind, which shows that wolves and coyotes in the eastern United States are hybrids between gray wolves, coyotes and domestic dogs. Dr. Roland Kays, the Museum’s curator of mammals, was one of 15 other national and international scientists who collaborated on the study that used unprecedented genetic technology, developed from the dog genome, to survey the global genetic diversity in dogs, wolves and coyotes. The study used over 48,000 genetic markers, making it the most detailed genomic study of any wild vertebrate species. The research results are especially relevant to wolves and coyotes in the Northeast. The study shows a gradient of hybridization in wolves, with pure wolves in western states and in- ... More |
Carnegie Museum of Art Receives Grant from NEH for Teenie Harris Exhibition
Charles "Teenie" Harris, Eartha Kitt leaping though poster to launch a Citizens Committee on Hill District Renewal program, with police officer Harvey Adams, Vine and Colwell Streets, Hill District, May 1966, black-and-white negative, Heinz Family Fund. Teenie Harris Archive © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces a $250,000 grant awarded to the museum by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund the development of the exhibition Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story, which will travel to additional venues after debuting in Pittsburgh. The retrospective was created by Carnegie Museum of Art with help by an advisory committee of African American scholars and educators; this will be the first large-scale exhibition devoted to the works of Harris. During his 40-year career as a staff and freelance photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, the preeminent national black newsweekly, Harris produced nearly 80,000 images documenting daily life in the ... More | | Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski on View at KC's Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Jules Olitski, Prince Patutszky Pleasures, 1962; Magna acrylic on canvas, 89 3/4 x 88 inches; Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Gift of the R. C. Kemper Charitable Trust, 2009.21; Image: ©Jules Olitski Estate/Licensed by VAGA, New York; Photo: Dan Wayne.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The exhibition Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski draws together more than thirty significant paintings from public and private collections and highlights important periods and themes from Olitski’s career. This is the first overview of the artist’s paintings since his death in 2007. On view May 20–August 28, 2011 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition then travels in 2012 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. The exhibition was organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by art historians E. A. ... More | | New Museum Presents First New York Solo Exhibition by Thai Artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Nabua, 2009. Single-channel video, color, sound, 9 min. Courtesy the artist and Illuminations Films.
NEW YORK, NY.- “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive” is the first New York exhibition devoted to the work of internationally acclaimed Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok). Primitive—which is had its American debut at the New Museum—is his most ambitious project to date: a new multi-platform work consisting of an installation of seven videos and related works. The exhibition is on view from May 19 through July 3, 2011. Weerasethakul’s films and videos are often set in the lush forests and quiet villages of the rural Isaan region of northeast Thailand, where the artist spent his childhood. His films use inventive narrative structures to explore intersections between man and nature, rural and urban life, and personal and political memory. Surreal imagery and a sensuous, languid pace give his work a dreamlike quality. Characters shift identities and species fluidly an ... More |
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 Christian Haake's First Institutional Solo Exhibition Opens at the GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle KunstBREMEN.- How do we construct reality? What role do individual and collective memories play in its formation? To what extent can reality and memory be rendered in imagery? These questions are central to Christian Haake's artistic practice. Christian Haake (born 1969 in Bremerhaven, lives in Bremen) constructs memories. Transforming his memories and mental images into precisely detailed objects and installations, Haake's productions tap into our collective memory, shaping a new image of reality in the process. His concern lies not with the verisimilitude of his works, but with their divergence and the fracture which separates reality, perception and mental image. The rich poetic potential of his works is directed not towards the affirmation of memory, but towards its subtle destabilization. Haake's work foregrounds the power of memory to generate reality, suggesting that memory, in all its inexactitude, might communicate ... More Detroit Institute of Arts Provides More Life-Like Reproductions of Art to Display throughout the Detroit AreaDETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Inside|Out project, which debuted last fall, is back by popular demand. Last year, the DIA brought 40 reproductions of paintings from its collection to the streets and parks of the greater metro Detroit area. Celebrating the richness and diversity of the museum’s extensive collection, the project connected with audiences outside the traditional museum walls in a grand, open air gallery. Inside|Out was so successful that the museum has expanded its scope. There will be four three-month installations: June–August and September–November 2011, and April–June and July–September 2012. In addition, the number of artworks has increased from 40 to 80, and while last year the works were spread throughout different cities, this year seven pieces will be clustered within walking or bike-riding distance in each participating community. “We are thrilled with t ... More Fuller Craft Museum Presents Icarus: An Installation By Mark DavisBROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum, New England’s home for contemporary craft, presents Icarus, an installation by Mark Davis, on display through March 15, 2012, created specifically for Fuller Craft’s Courtyard Gallery. The mobiles of Mark Davis are poetic abstractions of color and form, brought to life by the subtle and graceful movement of the constituent parts. The soft, organic shapes are carefully layered in a unique language of gestures, the brass or aluminum elements painted with quiet modulations of color or a bright burst of gold leaf. At Fuller Craft Museum, Davis has translated the fall of Icarus into a large-scale mobile installation. In the mythology of ancient Greece, Icarus was the son of Daedalus, the master craftsman imprisoned for aiding Theseus solve the labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur contained within. To escape, Daedalus fashioned wings of feathers and wax for himself and Icarus, warning n ... More Spanish Paradise Exhibition at New York Botanical GardenNEW YORK, NY.- The lush gardens and poetic vistas of the Alhambra—the legendary Islamic palace and fortress in Granada, Spain—are re-imagined in a large-scale, multipart exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden this summer. On view from May 21 through August 21, 2011, Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Alhambra provide a powerful evocation of the 13th-to-14th-century ensemble of landscape and buildings and the ways in which it has been viewed since its creation. The exhibition explores the Alhambra through three components: a spectacular 15,000-square-foot interpretation of its gardens in the Botanical Garden’s landmark Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, curated by world-renowned garden writer, designer, and historian Penelope Hobhouse; Historical Views: Tourists at the Alhambra, a display of rare folios, prints, photographs, watercolor drawings, and objects in the Garden’s William D. Rondina ... More Brighton Art Fair Showcases Over 120 Contemporary Artists LONDON.- The acclaimed Brighton Art Fair is back this autumn to the beautiful Regency Corn Exchange with the most exciting mix of artists yet. With record numbers of artists applying, four for every one place, the selection process was rigorous. The fair will run until September 25th, 2011. Brighton Art Fair showcases over 120 contemporary artists and attracts a capacity audience of over 5000 visitors. The fair has built a strong reputation for exhibiting exceptional quality artwork in a welcoming, friendly environment. The Brighton Art Fair is the largest visual art exhibition on the South Coast with year on year sales growth exceeding expectations. Over half a million pounds worth of art was sold in 2010, including the commissioning work which inevitably arises from such events. The selection panel have organised a stunning exhibition. Painters, printmakers, ceramicists, photographers and sculptors ... More Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute to Help Create Frozen Repository for the Great Barrier ReefWASHINGTON, D.C.- Researchers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and partnering organizations will build a frozen repository of Great Barrier Reef coral sperm and embryonic cells. Genetic banks composed of frozen biomaterials hold strong promise for basic and applied research and conservation of species and genetic variation. Because the banked cells are alive, researchers can thaw the frozen material one, 50 or, in theory, even 1,000 years from now to help restore a species or diversify a population. Done properly over time, samples of frozen material can be reared and placed back into ecosystems to infuse new genes into natural populations, thereby helping to enhance the health and viability of wild stocks. “It is crucial that we begin ex situ conservation on coral reefs while their genetic diversity is still high,” said Mary Hagedorn, a marine biologist at SCBI. “Although we ... More |
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